Dahi Handi world record holder Govinda group to return their award to President protesting SC ruling

Dahi Handi world record holder Govinda group to return their award to President protesting SC ruling

World record holder Govinda group will return their appreciation issued by the Guinness Book of World Records to President Pranab Mukherjee to register their protest against Supreme Court's restrictions on the height of Dahi Handi pyramid.

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Kiran Tare

Mumbai

August 22, 2016

UPDATED: August 22, 2016 23:34 IST

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Govinda group to return world record award to President.

This is to register their protest against SC restrictions.

SC has put restrictions on Dahi Handi pyramid.

Upset with the Supreme Court's restrictions on the height of Dahi Handi pyramid, world record holder Govinda group has decided to return their appreciation issued by the Guinness Book of World Records to the President Pranab Mukherjee as a token of their protest.

The group from Jogeshwari, Jai Jawan Govinda Pathak, had broken a 21-year-old world record of a Spanish group in 2012 by successfully forming nine layered pyramid at a Dahi Handi event in Thane.

While the Spanish group had a record of 39.27 feet, Jai Jawan had scaled a height of 43.79 feet.

'WE FEEL DEJECTED'

"We have decided to return the certificate as it does not make any sense to keep it with us," said the group's trainer Sandeep Dhawale.

"We had worked hard to achieve the feat. We are dejected now."

An office bearer of the group, Vijay Tandel, said that they will also write to the President urging him to relax the restrictions.

"We respect the Supreme Court's decision. But we will write to the President to convey what we feel," he said.

The Supreme Court has ordered the Maharashtra government to ensure that height of a Dahi Handi pyramid should not go beyond 20 feet and no participant should be below the age of 12.